Daily Debriefing
Student Assembly struck down two amendments proposed by Will Hix '12 during its meeting on Tuesday. The first amendment sought to change the voting process for the student body president and the student body vice president from approval voting to preferential voting. In the current voting model, students vote for any number of candidates running for a given position. Under the proposed model, votes would have been tabulated based on a ranking system and the votes for each candidate would be evaluated against every other candidate's ranking independent of others running, with the candidate who won every head-to-head comparison emerging as the winner. To pass, the amendment needed approval from five of the seven voting members present but received none. The second amendment proposed eliminating all eligibility requirements except on-campus residence for student body president and vice president positions, as well as prohibiting the Assembly from setting further eligibility requirements. The amendment needed approval votes from six of the nine voting members present in order to pass. Two members voted for the amendment, six voted against it and one abstained.